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Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale, by Frederick Buechner
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A sermon arises out of silence, preacher and writer Frederick Buechner reminds us, and that silence is both an opportunity and a warning. An audience sits in the pews waiting, and each of those who sit there bring with them a long and complicated history. How will you reach them? How will you awaken them? "Tell them the truth," Buechner says in this brief and powerful book. The Gospel begins here, out of this silence: "It is life with the sound turned off so that for a moment or two you can experience it not in terms of the words you make it bearable by but for the unutterable mystery that it is." Out of this silence, he writes, the "real news comes, which is sad news before it is glad news and that is fairy tale last of all." This series of lectures explores these three ways of seeing the Gospel: first as tragedy, as honest sorrow and suffering--this must be faced before anything else becomes possible. From this comes the comedy of new life: a child born to Abraham and Sarah in old age, Lazarus raised from the dead. This is the folly of the Gospel--what Buechner will ultimately call the fairy tale. Drawing deeply from the well of The Wizard of Oz and other stories, he reminds us in this final chapter that "there is a child in all of us," a child in touch with a truth deeper than the logic of tragedy. --Doug Thorpe
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"The same stylistic power, subtlety and originality that have distinguished Frederick Buechner's novels lift Wishful Thinking far above commonplace religion books nearly to the level of C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters. An artist is at work here in the vineyard of theology, a wit with wisdom."-- "The New York Times Book Review""A beguiling book .... Buechner handles difficult subjects (eternity immortality prayer) with a casual aplomb and easy analogy"-- "Time""Thoughtful, spirited, entertaininga dictionary for doubtersand restless believers." -- "Chicago Tribune""Original, pungent and joyful." -- "The Christian Century"
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Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Harper & Row; 1 edition (October 26, 1977)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060611561
ISBN-13: 978-0060611569
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
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#57,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book has confirmed deep musings and convictions I've held for years, and has provided fodder for years of thought and consideration. Already it seems to have provided language for these deep and vague, but foundational convictions. The book is well written, poetic....a gem. Its main point seems to be this - that as bearers of gospel truth, our task is to tell THE TRUTH, which is never so simple or neatly bundled as we might like, but wrought with our complex and difficult and sometimes seemingly contradictory experiences....that the gospel truth is ALL of these - horrendous tragedy, absurd comedy, incredible fairy tale. READ THIS BOOK!!!!
In this book, American writer and theologian, Frederick Buechner, discusses how we can read the Gospel through new eyes. His writing is beautiful, as there is an art and poetry to how he describes the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale.In regards to tragedy, Buechner says that, “Before the Gospel is word, it is a silence, a kind of presenting of life itself so that we see it not for what at various times we call it – meaningless or meaningful, absurd, beautiful – but for what it truly is in all its complexity, simplicity, mystery…the preacher must somehow himself present this silence and mystery of truth by speaking what he feels, not what he ought to say, but speaking forth not only the light and the hope of it but the darkness as well, all of it, because the Gospel has to do with all of it†(page 25-26). The Gospel seems bad before it becomes good. It is “tragedy before it is comedy because it strips us bare in order ultimately to clothe us†(page 33).The tragic, Buechner writes, is the inevitable, while the comic is the unforeseeable (page 57). He goes on to say, “I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath†(page 63). “I think that these parables can be read as jokes about God in the sense that what they are essentially about is the outlandishness of God who does impossible things with impossible people, and I believe that the comedy of them is not just a device for making the truth that they contain go down easy but that the truth that they contain can itself be thought of as comic†(page 66).When speaking of the Gospel as a fairy tale, he draws some parallels to our lives by saying, “To take the wrong turning of the path is to risk being lost in the forest forever, and an awful price has to be paid for choosing the wrong casket or the wrong door†(page 78). Furthermore fairy tales, “are tales of transformation where the ones who live happily ever after, as by no means everybody does in fairy tales, are transformed into what they have it in them at their best to be†(page 80).Near the conclusion of the book, Buechner summarizes by writing, “That is the Gospel, this meeting of darkness and light and the final victory of light. That is the fairy tale of the Gospel with, of course, the one crucial difference from all other fairy tales, which is that the claim made for it is that it is true, that it not only happened once upon a time but has kept on happening ever since and is happening still†(page 90).This book was recommended to me when I was considering pursing pastoral work as a profession. My friend told me that no other book more greatly influenced his preaching style than this book. I can see what he meant now. Buechner implores the reader to tell the truth when spreading the Gospel. In response to Amos 5:21-24, Buechner writes, “Nobody before or since has ever used words to express more powerfully than they our injustice and unrighteousness, our hardness of heart, our pride, our complacency, our hypocrisy, our idolatry, our shallowness, our faithlessness. These particular truths that the prophets speak were crucial for their own times and are crucial also for ours, and any preacher who does not speak them in his own right, naming names including his own name, any religious person who does not heave them at the injustice and unrighteousness of his own time and of himself, runs the risk of being irrelevant, sentimental, a bag of wind†(page 18).
Jesus does not answer the question "What is truth?" and neither does Buechner. His perspective on letting silence speak was excellent. Very nice how he brings in the prophets with their poetry - "It is the experience that they stun us with, speaking it out in poetry which transcends all other language in its power to the open the doors of the heart. The man of sorrows and acquiainted with grief. The one with the cauliflower ear and the split lip. By whose swollen eye and ruptured spleen we are somehow healed. Who can put a word to him and who needs to?"Chapter two presenting the gospel as tragedy Buechner addresses the Real Absence using Jesus in Gethsemane and at the cross, and also Elijah. And then this with Job: "It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present, and it is not just the whirlwind that stands for his absence ... but God is absent also from all Job's words about God, and the words of his comforters, because they are words without knowledge that obscure the issue of God by trying to define him as present in ways and places where he is not present, to define him as moral order, as the best answer man can give to the problem of his life. God is not an answer man can give, God says. God himself does not give answers. He gives himself ..."With the gospel as comedy in chapter three he begins with Sarah having Issac in old age. He then goes into Jesus using parables as "holy jokes" that no one got, and towards the end summarizes: "God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible. The good news breaks into a world where the news has been so bad for so long that when it is good nobody hears it much except for a few. And who are the few? ... The ones who labor and are heavy-laden like everybody else but who, unlike everybody else, know that they labor and are heavy-laden. ...They are the ones who are willing to believe in miracles because they know it will take a miracle to fill the empty place inside them where grace and peace belong with grace and peace. ... Maybe the truth of it is that it's too good not to be true."A few quotes from the final chapter with the gospel as fairy tale: "Maybe the first thing to say is that it is a world full of darkness and danger and ambiguity." Another one: "Not only does evil come disguised in the world of the fairy tale but often good does too." And then I especially like how he brings out the wonder of the gospel: "The preacher as apologist instead of fabulist tries as best he can to pare it down to a size he thinks the world will swallow."Really good stuff to chew on in this book.
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